The Fito Páez series began recording in February 2022, in Argentina and premiered in the last few hours on the Netflix platform. And Fito is incarnated by Gaspar Offenhenden and Iván Hochman. The actors will represent the singer as a child and an adult, respectively, in “The love after Love”, a series that will cover many little-known areas of the artist’s life, such as the tragic story of his mother and grandmother.
The singer’s career, who turns 60 in March, is endorsed by important awards such as eleven Latin Grammys and a grammy usa by “The conquest of space”, among other awards. His extensive professional career, spanning almost 40 years, has allowed him to be one of the most internationally recognized national musicians. Although the life of Rodolfo Paez is marked by success and recognition, he was also the protagonist of dark episodes in his childhood and youth and that will be reflected in the biopic of Netflix.
The most unknown part of the composer of “Circus Beat” is reflected in the series that begins in childhood and reviews three decades of the artist’s life, a figure who has had an existence full of contrasts. He was eight months old when he lived, without being aware, the death of his mother, the pianist Margarita Zulema Avalosdue to liver cancer. He grew up with his father and his grandmother, Belia Zulema Ramirez, who discovered the musical world. Also her great aunt Josefa Paez It was a fundamental pillar in his childhood.
In the mid-1980s, twelve months after the death of his father and with a nascent musical career appreciated by the public and the music industry, another tragic event occurred that would mark his life forever. His grandmother and his great-aunt were killed along with his housekeeper, who was pregnant at the time. The perpetrator of the massacre was Walter DiGusti, with the complicity of his younger brother Carlos DiGiustia former classmate of Fito Páez’s studies in adolescence, who began a career in the local police when he was an adult.
The artist acknowledges that at that moment everything stopped making sense, since his family had been killed, the people he had loved the most. The motives for the crimes are still a mystery. Di Giusti died in prison in 1998, a victim of HIV. The music and the singer Fabiana Cantilo, with whom he dated in the eighties, managed to save him. That event in the life of the Rosario, installed the inspiring seed of one of his most emblematic songs of Argentine rock: “City of poor hearts”.
Related to that moment, Fito Páez will launch his autobiography “Childhood and Youth”. Throughout the pages of the book he also addresses his sentimental relationships and highlights character, conviction and patience from the women with whom he has shared his life. The artist has two children born from different relationships.In 1999, he became the father of Martín for the first time, during his marriage to the actress Cecilia Roth, and then the actress came into his life Romina Ricci, with whom he had his daughter Margarita. After their breakup, the journalist arrived Julia Mengolini and Eugenia Martinez Kolodziej, your current partner.
With more than thirty live and studio albums, three films directed and, counting his recent publication, four books written, Fito Paez is considered one of the transcendental artists of Argentine and Latin American rock. He being the first Latin rocker to be awarded the title of Master of Latin Music awarded by the prestigious Berklee Collegein Boston 2015. His aura is positioned around emblematic figures of music such as Charly Garcia, Gustavo Cerati and Luis Alberto Spinetta.
by RN
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